The Almaty Declaration recalled the United Nations Millennium Declaration, in which heads of States and Governments recognized the special needs and problems of the landlocked developing countries and urged both bilateral and multilateral donors to increase financial and technical assistance to that group of countries to meet their special development needs and to help them overcome the impediments of geography by improving their transit transport systems.4 The Almaty Declaration recognized high trade transaction costs as a major reason for the marginalization of landlocked developing countries within the global trading system.
En la Declaración de Almaty se reconoció que los elevados costos de las transacciones comerciales eran un importante motivo de la marginación de los países en desarrollo sin litoral dentro del sistema comercial mundial.